GRE Word List
RIDDLE
a mystifying, misleading, or puzzling question posed as a problem to be solved or guessed : conundrum
The meaning of the word riddle is a mystifying, misleading, or puzzling question posed as a problem to be solved or guessed : conundrum.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| querulous | habitually complaining |
| boon | a timely benefit : blessing |
| cerebration | to use the mind : think |
| hilarity | boisterous merriment or laughter |
| repudiate | to refuse to accept |
| pellucid | admitting maximum passage of light without diffusion or distortion |
| takeoff | a rise or leap from a surface in making a jump or flight or an ascent in an aircraft or in the launching of a rocket |
| acidulous | somewhat acid or harsh in taste or manner |
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| annihilate | to cause to cease to exist : to do away with entirely so that nothing remains |